Barn and Attached Farmbuildings at Elston Hill Farm
BARN AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS AT ELSTON HILL FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023974
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Attached Farmbuildings at Elston Hill Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS AT ELSTON HILL FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023974
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Attached Farmbuildings at Elston Hill Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS AT ELSTON HILL FARM
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS AT ELSTON HILL FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orcheston
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 06810 45719
Details
ST 93 SE
1/0001
Barn and attached
farmbuildinqs at Elston Hill Farm
GII
Farmbuildings.1840's for Stephen Mills including resited late C18 barn.North range,including barn of weatherboarding over timber frame with hipped corrugated iron roof;east range of flint with brick dressings and gabled slate roof;west range of lime rendered cob with hipped slate roof,with low cob and slate range connected to smithy at south end of knapped flint with brick dressings,gabled slate roof and brick end stacks.PLAN:built around three sides of south-facing yard;to north is nine-bay barn with south aisle and two threshing bays flanked by three-bay cartsheds each end with granary to left over;east cowhouse range of one storey,ten bays,with bull pen to south; west stable range of two storeys with further range to south consisting of one-storey three-bay loosebox range connected to two-storey smithy.North range:sliding doors to all openings,including two double doors and two loft doors.West range has timber lintels over all openings.East range is open-sided to yard, with stone-quoined doorway to east and brick-quoined doorway to south gable.Lower range to south of west stable range has three large doors with adjoining windows to east front,window to left with original glazing.Smithy has segmental-arched brick-quoined doorway to east and two-window south gable with brick segmental-arched windows.INTERIOR:Granary and stable have king-post trusses.Barn has late C18 timber-framing with bracing to tie beams and arcade plates and mid C19 queen-strut trusses.First-floor corn mill to west of barn and over cartshed is noted as having quern stones.This is the principal range of buildings on this large (600 acres in 1914) sheep-and-corn farmstead.It is a good example of an improved farmstead of the "High Farming" era built on the estate of Stephen Mills,who was a pioneer of agricultural improvement on Salisbury Plain and one of the foremost agriculturalists in southern England in his use of advanced technology.
Listing NGR: SU0681045719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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